The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 100

Then the princes thought that there was something in what the old woman had said about their mother, and being, of course, eager to save their lives, they shouted to her, and promised that she should have their brother if she would deliver them from this danger.

Who acts: princes, something, old woman, woman · What happens: think, be, say, save, shout, promise · To what, where: lives, mother, brother, princes, danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, something, old woman, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princes	det
3	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 was	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 was	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 something	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 what	acl:relcl
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 mother	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eager	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 eager	cc
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 eager	cop
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eager	punct
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 eager	case
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 of	fixed
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eager	punct
26	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 save	mark
28	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 eager	xcomp
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lives	nmod:poss
30	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 save	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shouted	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shouted	nsubj
33	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shouted	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 promised	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 promised	cc
38	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 have	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 have	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 have	aux
42	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 promised	ccomp
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 brother	nmod:poss
44	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 have	obj
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 deliver	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 deliver	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 deliver	aux
48	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 have	advcl
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 deliver	obj
50	from	from	ADP	_	52 danger	case
51	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 danger	det
52	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 deliver	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the princes				then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	past	something			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the old woman					about princes's mother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund						eager property	tree rules
5	save	to-infinitive		princes's lives					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
6	shout speech: express	past	princes = prince		mother				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
7	promise speech: promise	past	the princes not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	have	should	woman	princes's brother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
9	deliver a condition, not said to happen	would	woman	princes = prince		this danger			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from danger=Initial_Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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